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Free Balloon Clipart Made Easy ...
Finding balloon clipart in general can be challenging, but finding decent FREE balloon clipart can easily turn into a Shrek like quest ... You have to fight your way through list after list. You have to shield yourself against blinding banner ads.
You will need all your determination to make it to the castle, where your beautiful princess Fiona, your free balloon clip art, awaits you. And you won't make it without the help of your true friend Donkey.
Let me be your Donkey.
Let me guide you through the lands of free balloon clipart. No annoying singing or humming, I promise. Just solid advice where to find free balloon clip art that is perfect for you, fast.
As explained on my page about balloon clipart, only content explicitly marked as "public domain" can be used without paying for it. But even then there may be restrictions. For example, some providers may not allow the use for commercial projects. Almost never permitted is the creation of any sort of gallery, that could be deemed as a competition to the provider.
I have reviewed 9 of the best resources for free balloon clipart on the net, with the following questions in mind:
- How big is their selection of free balloon clipart?
- How easily do I find what I am looking for (in other words, how good is their search function)?
- What are the terms of use?
FreeClipartNow.com
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Size of selection
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38 results for search term "balloon"
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Search function
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Basic keyword search.
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Terms of Use
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Quote: "All graphics on this site are placed into the Public Domain, which means that you can do almost whatever you wish with it." Restriction: do not use any content to produce what could be considered a competitive venture against FreeClipartNow.com.
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Recommendation
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Decent site with a big enough selection of free balloon clip art. Easy to navigate. No annoying banner ads, but large section of text ads on top of each page.
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HellasMultimedia.com
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Size of selection
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About 25 examples of free balloon clipart, some animated, in their "Birthday" category (pages 9 to 12).
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Search function
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No search function. You have to browse through the categories.
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Terms of Use
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Quote: "You are free to download and use web images found from this site on your noncommercial projects." Restrictions: Graphics may not be redistributed, sold, offered for download or added to any sort of collection, that could be seen as a competition to HellasMultimedia.com.
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Some nice examples of free balloon clipart. I especially like the various colourful balloon bunches, both static and animated. Again, no flashing banner ads, but big section with text ads on top of each page.
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Hscripts.com
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Size of selection
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Only one clipart, a round balloon with a funny face, but in 48 different colours.
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Search function
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Basic keyword search.
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Terms of Use
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Quote: "Free Balloon jpg, gif clip art icons that can be used in web page or web site with any background color. hscripts.com is the copyright owner of all cool clip art picture / clip arts images."
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Recommendation
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Great if you need a simple high quality balloon icon. Cool feature: you can change the background colour to see how the icon would look with various backgrounds.
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Gif.com
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Size of selection
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3 results for the search term "balloon".
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Search function
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Basic keyword search.
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Terms of Use
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Copyrighted content owned by JUPITERIMAGES. Quote: "It is illegal to duplicate, download or distribute any Content from this Site except for your use."
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Recommendation
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Limited selection. Gif.com seems to serve as a "bait" for the commercial sites owned by Jupiterimages (e.g. Clipart.com, Animationfactory.com).
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Cksinfo.com
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Size of selection
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About 40 results in category "Holidays and Occasions > Birthday", spread over 6 pages.
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Search function
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No search function. You have to browse through the categories.
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Terms of Use
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Quote: "You are free to download and use web images found from this site on your noncommercial projects." Restrictions: Graphics may not be redistributed, sold, offered for download or added to any sort of collection, that could be seen as a competition to Cksinfo.com.
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Recommendation
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Decent site with some nice examples of free balloon clipart, although somewhat hidden in their birthday category. My favourites: 'Teddy wishing Happy Birthday' and 'Garfield in party central'.
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FreeImages.com
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Size of selection
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21 photo results for search term "balloons", no clipart.
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Search function
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Basic keyword search.
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Terms of Use
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Copyrighted content owned by JUPITERIMAGES. Quote: "It is illegal to duplicate, download or distribute any Content from this Site except for your use."
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Recommendation
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For the hot air balloon fan. No clipart, but nice photos of hot air balloons. Serves as bridge page to the commercial stock photo sites of Jupiterimages.
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MyFreeClipart.com
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Size of selection
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30 results for the search term "balloons", which are basically variations of two designs.
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Search function
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Good, search by keyword, category and b/w or color.
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Terms of Use
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No terms of use mentioned, only an appeal to support the site by linking to them.
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Recommendation
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The site is easy to navigate and has no annoying flash ads. Their selection of free balloon clipart is very limited though, as the 30 examples are variations of two designs. If you need a free balloon clip art with "Happy New Year" wishes, this is the place to go.
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WebClipart.About.com
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Size of selection
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Over 3800 article results for search term "balloons".
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Search function
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Basic, either browse by category or use the Google custom search.
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Terms of Use
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You need to email the owner of Webclipart to get her permission before using any content, whether on a web page (no cost) or for commercial use (prices vary). Quote: "The images are free to use on your personal Web page. You may not offer them in a collection or allow them to be downloaded from your site. You must credit me and link back to my site on each page that you use the images."
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Recommendation
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It takes some time to browse through the inventory, as you first only see the articles. You have to click into every article to see the graphic itself. If you are willing to invest some time, both with searching and emailing the owner, your reward will be a varied selection of original free balloon clipart. Different from what I've seen on any of the other free clipart sites.
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BalloonHQ.com
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Size of selection
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About 30 balloon clipart examples on the page.
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Search function
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No search function, just scroll down the page to see all the graphics.
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Terms of Use
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Quote: "To the best of my knowledge, all of the clip art images displayed here are in the public domain and can be freely used by anyone. ... The clip art images linked to but not displayed here are NOT in the public domain and cannot be freely used by anyone."
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Recommendation
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Graphics are taken from various clipart collections. For each collection you will get the link, the creator, a description, copyright status and purchase information. Most of the links seem to be outdated and lead to error pages. So you best stick to the examples displayed on the page itself.
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